KUALA LUMPUR: Tenaga Nasional Berhad (TNB) has suspended the operations of 1,606 sub-stations throughout Kelantan, Pahang and Terengganu in view of the severe floods in the state.

Its Kelantan general manager, Md Yuslan Md Yusof, said that up to 6pm today, the operations of 232 sub-stations in Gua Musang, 215 in Kuala Krai, 24 in Tanah Merah, 19 in Jeli, 12 in Machang, five in Tumpat and three in Kota Baru had been suspended.

TNB senior general manager (Corporate and Communications) Datuk Mohd Aminuddin Mohd Amin said the move was to avoid short-circuit which can affect 70,284 consumers.

Kelantan has the most number of consumers affected with (42,688) when the operations of 1,150 sub-stations are suspended in Kuala Krai, Gua Musang, Jeli, Machang, Tanah Merah, Kota Baru and Tumpat.

"In Terengganu, the operations of 138 sub-stations were suspended in Kemaman, Bandar Al-Muktafi Billah Shah and Dungun, involving 8,105 consumers while in Pahang, 5,878 consumers will be affected as 18 sub-stations are suspended," he said in a statement, Thursday.

He said TNB would continue to monitor the situation.

The floods in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang continued to worsen. - Bernama

SYDNEY: An Iranian-born gunman who took hostages in a Sydney cafe was infatuated with extremism and mentally unstable, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said Tuesday, calling the siege a “brush with terrorism”.

“He had a long history of violent crime, infatuation with extremism and mental instability,” Abbott said. “As the siege unfolded ... he sought to cloak his actions with the symbolism of the ISIL death cult.”

The 50-year-old, widely named in the media as Man Haron Monis, took 17 people hostage at the Lindt cafe in central Sydney on Monday.

He was killed when police in SWAT-style gear stormed the eatery early Tuesday. Two hostages also died.

Abbott said he was well known to Australian authorities.

“We know that he sent offensive letters to the families of Australian soldiers killed in Afghanistan and was found guilty of offences related to this,” he said.

“We also know that he posted graphic extremist material online. Tragically, there are people in our community ready to engage in politically motivated violence.”

Abbott praised police for the way they acted, saying Australians “should be reassured by the way our law enforcement and security agencies responded to this brush with terrorism”.

“Plainly, there are lessons to be learned and we will thoroughly examine this incident to decide what lessons can be learned,” he said, adding that “it will take time to clarify exactly what happened in Martin Place and why”. – AFP

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